The Actor

Painting Details

20th Century Artist: Pablo
Picasso
Title and Year: The Actor or L'acteur, 1904
Size: 196.2cm x 115.3cm
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, New York, United States
of America
Subject: Portraits

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Like many struggling artists Picasso used whatever materials were
available to him at the time. With the actor he has painted it on
the back of a landscape painting done by another artist. He is moving
from the downtrodden and impoverished to the outcast and theatrical,
he's also moving from blues and dark colors to the pinks and lighter
colors of his Rose period.

The painting was gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York City by the daughter of the automaker Walter Chrysler, Thelma
Chrysler Foy. In 2010 the painting was ripped by an art student who
stumbled and fell into the work. The 15cm tear was not in a central
area of the painting and was fully repaired.